Codebook file for replication archive for "Transitional justice and the rule of law: Tainted judges and accountability for Nazi crimes in West Germany," forthcoming in Journal of Politics. Please contact Holger L. Kern (hkern@fsu.edu) and Georg Vanberg (georg.vanberg@duke.edu) with any questions.



ID										ID of West German trial
unique.defendant.ID						ID of unique defendent
convicted								Defendent was convicted
state 									state (Land)
city2 									city

Denunciation							Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
Euthanasia								Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
FinalPhase								Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
ExterminationEinsatzgruppen				Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
ExterminationCamps						Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
ExterminationOther						Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
Judicial								Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
NSDetainment							Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
NSOther									Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description
WarCrimes								Indictor variable for type of crime; see Table 2 in the article for description

FirstSessionYear						Year in which trial started
Court									Landgericht (district court) in which proceedings took place
Months2									Length of prison sentence imposed in months



##  Note: some variables in the dataset are multiply imputed. The @ sign indicates that there are 10 columns in the dataset
##  with @ replaced by the numbers 1 through 10.

NS_judge_@_20				share of judges who were in office during the Third Reich but not in office before
NS_prosecutor_@_20			share of prosecutors who were in office during the Third Reich but not in office before

NS_judge_@_19				share of judges who were in office before the Third Reich
NS_prosecutor_@_19			share of prosecutors who were in office before the Third Reich

NS_judge_@_2				share of judges who completed their legal education during the Third Reich
NS_prosecutor_@_2			share of prosecutors who completed their legal education during the Third Reich

NS_judge_@_5				share of judges who completed their legal education before the Third Reich
NS_prosecutor_@_5			share of prosecutors who completed their legal education before the Third Reich

NS_judge_@_23				Fractional measure of legal education before Third Reich for judges
NS_prosecutor_@_23 			Fractional measure of legal education before Third Reich for prosecutors

NS_judge_@_24				Fractional measure of legal education during Third Reich for judges
NS_prosecutor_@_24 			Fractional measure of legal education during Third Reich for prosecutors

NS_judge_@_27				Fractional measure of legal education before Third Reich for judges (6 years)
NS_prosecutor_@_27 			Fractional measure of legal education before Third Reich for prosecutors (6 years)

NS_judge_@_28				Fractional measure of legal education during Third Reich for judges (6 years)
NS_prosecutor_@_28 			Fractional measure of legal education during Third Reich for prosecutors (6 years)

NS_judge_@_30				Fractional measure of legal education before Third Reich for judges (8 years)
NS_prosecutor_@_30 			Fractional measure of legal education before Third Reich for prosecutors (8 years)

NS_judge_@_31				Fractional measure of legal education during Third Reich for judges (8 years)
NS_prosecutor_@_31 			Fractional measure of legal education during Third Reich for prosecutors (8 years)

NS_judge_@_21				Average age of judges
NS_prosecutor_@_21 			Average age of prosecutors

NS_judge_@_22				Share of judges who served in WWII
NS_prosecutor_@_22 			Share of prosecutors who served in WWII

NS_judge_@_26				Average judicial experience of judges
NS_prosecutor_@_26 			Average judicial experience of prosecutors


antisemitic_vs_5_1924		DVFP vote share May 1924
antisemitic_vs_1928			NSDAP vote share 1928
antisemitic_vs_1933			NSDAP vote share 1933
syndamordest				Synagogue damaged or destroyed in 1938
hephep_all					Hep-Hep riot in 1819
pog20						Pogrom in 1920s

JM.party.cont.alt 			Party affiliation of state minister of justice
MP.party.cont.alt 			Party affiliation of minister president
MP2.pro.nazi				NS involvement of minister president FE
MP2.anti.nazi				opposition involvement of minister president
JM2.pro.nazi				NS involvement of state minister of justice
JM2.anti.nazi				opposition involvement of state minister of justice

CDUCSU.share				CDU/CSU state election vote share
SPD.share					SPD state election vote share
FDP.share					FDP state election vote share

occupation_zone				Occupation zone



